Bill Text: IN HB1087 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Transportation of household effects and furniture.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-07 - First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation [HB1087 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1087-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 8-2.1-24-3.
Synopsis: Transportation of household effects and furniture. Provides
that the law regarding certification of motor carriers providing
intrastate transportation of property by motor vehicle does not apply to
motor vehicles that are used to provide transportation for household
effects or furniture for compensation.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
transportation.
(1) Motor vehicles used exclusively for carrying United States mail.
(2) Motor vehicles while being used or operated under the control, direction, and supervision of:
(A) the United States government, the state, or a political subdivision; or
(B) the board of trustees of a state institution.
(3) Motor vehicles while transporting supplies, livestock feed ingredients, fertilizer, or fertilizing materials that are in transit to or from farms.
(4) Motor vehicles:
(A) controlled and operated by a farmer when used in the transportation of the farmer's agricultural commodities and
products of those commodities or in the transportation of
supplies to the farm;
(B) controlled and operated by a nonprofit agricultural
cooperative association (or by a federation of agricultural
cooperative associations if the federation does not possess
greater powers or purposes than the cooperative associations);
(C) used in carrying property consisting of livestock or
agricultural commodities (not including manufactured
products) if the motor vehicles are not used in carrying:
(i) other property;
(ii) agricultural commodities; or
(iii) passengers;
for compensation; or
(D) used in carrying livestock feed or feed ingredients, if those
products are transported to a site of agricultural productions or
to a business enterprise engaged in the sale of agricultural
goods to a person engaged in agricultural production.
This chapter shall not be construed to apply to motor vehicles
owned, leased, controlled, or operated by a nonprofit cooperative
association, either incorporated or unincorporated, that was in
existence on July 6, 1961.
(5) Motor vehicles, commonly known as armored cars, used
exclusively to transport, under written bilateral contract, coin,
currency, bullion, securities, precious metals, jewelry, precious
stones, money, legal tender, stocks and bonds, negotiable and
nonnegotiable instruments and securities, postage and revenue
stamps, and other valuable documents and rare objects.
(6) Motor vehicles operating exclusively in intrastate commerce
that have a gross vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating,
gross combination weight, or gross combination weight rating
equal to or less than twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds.
However, the motor vehicle may not be:
(A) used to provide for-hire transport;
(B) designed or used to transport sixteen (16) or more
passengers, including the driver; or
(C) used to transport hazardous material in amounts requiring
a placard.
(7) Motor vehicles that are used to provide transportation for
household effects or furniture for compensation.
